Category Archives: Orillia News

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health. It was notified on Saturday that patient on its Awenda Program tested positive for the virus. Waypoint says the patient ...

A suspect nicknamed "Horn Guy" who was wanted following a violent riot at the US Capitol has been identified and arrested. According to the Department of Justice, Jake Angeli, who was photographed las...

Ontario has reached a COVID-19 vaccination milestone. Health Minister Christine Elliot announced on Saturday that over 100-thousand doses of the vaccine have been administered so far across the provin...

A Florida man who was photographed carrying the lectern from the House of Representative chambers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested. According to jail records, 36-year-old Adam Chr...

There's a mushroom recall. Monaghan Mushrooms Ltd. is recalling its Belle Grove brand Whole White Mushrooms because the product may be contaminated with the bacteria that causes botulism. The CFIA say...

A regimental funeral for a Calgary police officer killed in the line of duty has been held today. The service for Sergeant Andrew Harnett took place at 1 this afternoon and included a flypast by two C...

A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie. It says the outbreak is on its Integrated Stroke and Rehabilitation unit, where seven patients who recen...

A good way to end the year in area home sales. House sales for the Southern Georgian Bay region totalled 270 units in December 2020. This was a large increase of 36.4% from December 2019 and was a new...

Our region now has a whopping 516 cases of COVID-19 this week, the highest weekly number since the start of the pandemic. To put that into perspective, there were 376 cases last week. The number of ne...

More vaccines are on the way. That from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today, who says this week over 124,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine were delivered to 68 sites across the country. "Over 208,(000) ...